Fran Connor

When th'eternal substance of my soul/Did live imprisoned in my wanton flesh/Each in their function,serving others need/I was a professor at a midwest university

[Fran Connor @SportingKyd]

2021 remix of my KS video to hype the book @darren_defrain and I are diligently working on: Kansas + postpunk + indie + two @WichitaState English profs = No choice but action

https://t.co/RLrHPeNGjm

[Noah Campbell @NoahProoval]

This is such a load of horseshit. Hunter explained the "outsider" thing and everybody knows it's true. Joe is a state school guy that all the Harvard brains in DC have always sneered at. And the Obama guys snivelling about "wHaT hE diD tO uS!!!" is the height of hypocrisy.

[Fran Connor @SportingKyd]

https://t.co/IZG61jLxS1

[SIMONE 🩷 @parasocialyte]

i'm all for searing criticism but you do have to actually criticize the material of the album if you want to write an album critique. also this would have more of a leg to stand on if you had cited literally any examples of specific critics doing what you're complaining they do

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

The media clearly overreacted to the pardon because they did not take Trump’s threats to go after the Bidens seriously. Unsure if there’s polling but i would guess that today most voters don’t care much about it.

Also: note how many of the loudest Biden critics have had little to say about the dozens of corrupt pardons by the current administration.

[Negro Libre @NegroLibre1]

This is one of those decisions that I actually thought was not only the right call, but that a lot of Biden critics were completely unprepared for what was coming with Trump 2.0. Anyone who sees what's happening now and thinks it was a bad call is unserious to say the least.

[dalton @dwkamish]

it’s unsurprising, in other words, when people who succeed by treating academia like a regular 9–5 have habits or taste similar to those of people who have a regular 9–5

[dalton @dwkamish]

maybe spicy but one possible reason for this that people don’t want to admit is that academia rewards people with passable work and high work ethic more than it does being interesting or erudite

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Everyone always talking about “talent density” in Silicon Valley when we really should be talking about how 80% of pretzels in America come from a small region of Pennsylvania

[constans @constans]

“Gifted” programs in city public school systems are simply a means of getting academically capable students into a “regular” classroom without disruptive students or remedial students the teacher has to expend additional resources. And that’s an important and necessary service

[Sasho Todorov @SashoTodorov1]

Euros keep pretending that somehow America's greater capacity for assimilation is just due to the different immigrants we get. Meanwhile, Lawrence, Kansas, is maybe two weeks away from sending a battalion of volunteers for the Algerian efforts to aid the Sahrawi.

[Fran Connor @SportingKyd]

Best music review ive read in ages

[eli @elischoop]

got back to my roots and wrote about that really bad olivia rodrigo record and more specifically how embarrassing critics treat her with kid gloves https://t.co/eQq5azduWq

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Appeals court rejects Kennedy Center effort to pause court-ordered removal of Trump's name from building.

[Overeducated Gibbon @MostlyMonkey]

Management is like 90% knowing when to get involved and when to benignly neglect your people.

[Kolchak the Daywalker 😇 🐊 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦🍌 @ArthurKolchak]

The common leftoid line about US-produced films concerning the Vietnam war is that they still “center” the American perspective even if they don’t portray the cause as legitimate, so they are still pragmatically imperialist propaganda.

Of course, if the films centered the Vietnamese perspective it would be “cultural appropriation” this and “cinematic yellowface” that.

And of course, if the American media apparatus just ignored the conflict all together it would be “erasure” or “denialism.” 🙄

Heads I win, tails you lose.

[Carla :) @Carlanoscopy]

the weirdest part of working in a uni is you realise just how many students are absolute snitches like oh my god shut up, why are you snitching on your friends

[benji true poptimism has never been tried 🇵🇸☭ @benjimadness]

I kind of don't respect this. One step removed from "Oh I don't pay attention to artists I just like songs"

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

you simply do not understand how comically diverse America is. what a beautifully stupid country we have

[Buzz @dan_wilson4]

Most painful walk off loss this team has ever had in Toronto.

[Fran Connor @SportingKyd]

Damn she absolutely kills it

[(((Greg Kigar (1))) @gkigar7]

Perfect angle. I’ve watched this, well not enough times, Geddy’s smile as she kills it and her smiles when she completes and when she hears the appreciation swell. Perfect!!

[Dean Ammi @AlgerianFooty]

🗣️ “I want to say thank you to Algeria for choosing Lawrence, Kansas.” 🇺🇸

The locals in USA are all getting behind Algeria. 🇩🇿